Hi Pitts, I guess the report can only go on the evidence.
Client problems with other pilots and the client only wanting to fly with certain people is information possibly not factual enough to be included in the AAIB report, besides, that is something Mr Caring denies anyway
Owner of The Ivy says he did not pressure crash pilot into flying - Telegraph.
Mr Tinkler-Rose added Mr Barnes had told him he was tired of the pressures of the private helicopter industry and wanted to move into the environment of private jets.
Perhaps the client was part of this 'career change' and to let Mr Caring down on that morning may have been seen as jeopardised this new future.
https://www.rt.com/uk/226223-blair-private-jet-donor/
"The luxurious private jet used by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and dubbed ‘Blair Force One’ is reportedly owned by one of Britain’s richest men.
Blair uses the plane, a £30 million Bombardier Global Express jet, which comes with a stateroom, kitchen, lounge and bed, as he travels around the world as a consultant.
The Telegraph revealed the private jet belongs to Richard Caring, whose fortune is estimated at £800 million ($1.2 billion)."
I see what you mean about recent comments and it's interesting to note that the AAIB report mentions,
"The pilot told his colleague that he felt under pressure to go ahead with the flight that morning but he had decided to cancel it.". Yet now at the Coroners Court we hear; "
he told a colleague he felt under "extreme pressure" to go ahead with the flight despite bad weather."
Maybe the added adjective has something to do with Mr Caring's comment at the CC;
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Mr Caring also criticised previous evidence from an air ambulance colleague of Captain Barnes, Shaun Tinkler-Rose, who suggested Captain Barnes was placed under "pressure" by his client to fly.
Mr Caring described Mr Tinkler-Rose's evidence as "extreme" and added: "I believe Mr Tinkler-Rose is slightly confused in his understanding of the use of commercial helicopters."
He described Mr Tinkler-Rose as a "frustrated pilot," and disputed the notion commercial helicopter clients are "control freaks or people who can't take no for an answer.""